How ESG Became a Dirty Word in Corporate America

WSJ What’s News

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🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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P.M. Edition for Jan. 9. Businesses are making a conscious effort to avoid using the acronym ESG to highlight their environmental, social and governance initiatives. WSJ workplace, management and leadership reporter Chip Cutter explains what’s behind the shift. And Boeing’s CEO says the company needs to acknowledge “our mistake,” after a door-plug failure on an Alaska Airlines flight. Plus, Meta puts tighter restrictions on teen accounts on Instagram and Facebook. Annmarie Fertoli hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:25.8	How ESG became a dirty word in corporate America.
0:35.0	Now we're at the point where a lot of executives are working hard not to use the term ESG
0:41.0	or to rebrand corporate committees to think sort of differently about how they
0:46.9	explain all of this.
0:48.7	And Meta puts tighter restrictions on teen accounts on Facebook and Instagram.
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0:58.2	It's Tuesday January 9th.
0:59.9	I'm Anne Marie Fertulli for the Wall Street Journal.
1:02.4	This is the PM edition of What's News,
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